Attentional Problems

Children with true attention problems have a condition that affects their ability to maintain attention. Their symptoms are pervasive, meaning they are continuous and are evident despite the activity the child is participating in.

Additionally, there are different kinds of attentional difficulties a child can have. For example, some children may have trouble paying attention to what is important to focus on and may be distracted by unimportant extraneous things going on, such as focusing on the child sitting next to him in class, rather then on the teacher. Another child may have difficulty with sustained attention, or keeping attention over time.

Attention problems affects 3 to 5 percent of all children, and as much as 2 million American children. Intelligence of these children is often normal or even above normal.

At National Speech, we do not support the idea that the causes of many attention problems remain unknown. We believe that attention problems are related to underlying cognitive processing skills and that those skills can be impacted by cognitive training programs, such as the LearningRx(LearningRx).